An engineering and economic evaluation of quick germ-quick fiber process for dry-grind ethanol facilities: Model description and documentation

Changying Li; Luis F. Rodríguez; Madhu Khanna; Aslihan D. Spaulding; Tao Lin; Steven R. Eckhoff

doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2010.01.139

An engineering and economic evaluation of quick germ-quick fiber process for dry-grind ethanol facilities: Model description and documentation

Changying Li
, Luis F. Rodríguez
, Madhu Khanna
, Aslihan D. Spaulding
, Tao Lin
, Steven R. Eckhoff

Agricultural Economics

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Abstract

An engineering economic model, which is mass balanced and compositionally driven, was developed to compare the conventional corn dry-grind process and the pre-fractionation process called "Quick germ/Quick fiber". For the purposes of this model, the distillers dried grains with solubles price was correlated to its protein and fiber composition and the long-term average relationship with the corn price. This paper has been prepared to describe the development of the model and provide documentation for its use. This model can be used to provide decision support for ethanol producers considering the new emerging technologies that may provide sustainability to the business of ethanol production from corn.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5275-5281
Number of pages	7
Journal	Bioresource Technology
Volume	101
Issue number	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2010.01.139
State	Published - Jul 2010

Funding

The authors would like to thank Mr. Xiaoguang Chen, Ms. Raffaella Bottini, and Dr. Paul Ellinger for their assistance in preparing this work. This work was partially funded by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Illinois Council on Food and Agricultural Research (C-FAR) , and USDA CSREES through hatch project #ILLU-741-342 (NC Regional Project 1016).

Funders	Funder number
C-FAR
Illinois Council on Food and Agricultural Research
USDA-CSREES	-741-342
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

UN SDGs

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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

Bioenergy
Dry-grind process
Engineering economic model
Ethanol
Quick germ-quick fiber process

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Bioengineering
Environmental Engineering
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Waste Management and Disposal

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